laws on the pretext that they are trying to protect the voter rolls and voter fraud. indeed you see that we need to be as strong as our ancestors in the underlying pretext and that is and be as strong as they were in pursuing on keeping the rights we have gained from the 60s on. [applause] >> there's been quite a discussion coming in now in the states about this. the justice department as he now has been vigorously looking into these instances. i feel like looking back into history as useful. i think we often think about the civil rights movement in particular because it's more recent. the back to that those people who voted in hot office in the 1860s and 70s. those things matter and we do need to be vigilant in a democracy always about our rights as citizens of all stripes. i think it matters. >> i will completely agree and i think some people might say bring it. that might call for a third reconstruction precisely because of the backsliding that is unfolding right as we speak. >> i want to thank you for writing the book. i teach the douglas narratives are de facto f